Shonda Rhimes
Shonda Rhimes
Shonda Lynn Rhimesis a television producer and writer. Rhimes is the creator, head writer, executive producer, and showrunner of the medical drama television series Grey's Anatomy, its spin-off Private Practice and the political thriller series Scandal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth13 January 1970
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
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I can feel it when there's too much medical and not enough personal, and that's the most important balance to keep. We've done episodes where there's a ton of personal and not very much medical. Works just fine. But when the medical sort of overtakes the personal, the show doesn't feel like the show.
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It's about surgery. It's our show sort of on speed.
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What I find interesting is that there are some people out there who take the show very seriously. But then I think about how strongly I felt about 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and how emotional I was about what happened to those characters. So going from being a fan to somebody who has her own show, I definitely respect it. You come into people's homes in a very personal way on a weekly basis. They get involved. But the general success of the show, that sort of loyalty and rage over why did you let Meredith and George sleep together, it's fantastic but it's not something I necessarily expected.
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I've learned this is a very long marriage doing a television show. I like the people that I work with to be people I enjoy, so you want to cast people who are as excited and enthusiastic as you are.
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When the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide.
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I think I'm most proud of the fact that I have figured out how to exist as both a creative person and artist, and a businesswoman and manager. Because those two things do not go together.
Writing for television is completely different from movie scriptwriting. A movie is all about the director's vision, but television is a writer's medium.
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It's that time in your life when you literally don't know if what you're going to do is going to work or not, what your future is, if you're going to make it.
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It worked out extremely well. The 10th episode was an incredibly strong episode to start out the season. So it was really easy for us to end the season on that ninth episode and start up again on that tenth without missing a beat.
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It's incredibly encouraging that our viewers haven't gotten hung up on the race thing. It's not about the fact that she's Asian and he's black. It's about the fact that she's a slob, and he's a neat freak. That's what the whole relationship is all about.
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It meant we could have two leading men and two leading men in very different ways.
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This isn't a traditional medical drama. I've always said from the beginning, we're a relationship show with surgery. It's never about the patients. It's about how the doctors feel about the patients.
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The Web allows people to know our names and what we look like. As a writer, you don't expect to be recognizable to anybody. And it's certainly not your goal. But I spent so much time wishing to have the show, and wishing that it would be a success, that I certainly can't complain about anything that happens after that. The viewers feel a little bit a part of the writer's room in that sense.
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For us, not having a time slot last year, and now all of you watching ... has been great.